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Actually, it can go either way. If you are Casting Defensively, fail or not, you do not suffer an attack of opportunity. If the roll fails, you both lose the spell and do not get to cast it. If you cast normally (as in not defensively) and get attacked from the AoO, then you'll have to make...

I read that in the back of the MM, but I don't see where it says a Gaze Attacks must include the word "Gaze" in the title. It just seems like a lot of explanation of when Gaze Attacks apply or don't and how they are supposed to work. Would you mind pointing me to the part you are referring?

Is Stunning Glance a Gaze attack? I'd vote yes. No, it doesn't describe it as such in the description, but the Medusa's Petrifying Gaze is not described as a Gaze attack either...except that Gaze is in the title. Glance and gaze are synonymous. That being said, I couldn't find a rule in...

Well, the sample Tainted Raver is a 5th-level fighter, which ordinarily has a CR 5 without the template. It still has a CR 5 with the template, so it's safe to assume that at least for the first 5 HD, the CR adjustment is 0. Judging by what sort of changes the template gives, the improvements...

D&D has precious few mechanics for Social interaction. Have you considered using Gather Information as part of a mingle and gossip type thing to gather sufficient dirt on someone to help Intimidate them, which somehow or another leads them further along the trail to their McGuffin? You'll...

An interesting question, though I don't think you'd like the answer. What I always tell my players is that, "In D&D, anything is possible, but it's probably expensive." This is entirely up to your DM, but if you follow the magic item creation guidelines in the back of the DMG, such an item...

I had always been under the impression that you did not need ANY craft skills to create magic items. Sure, if you wanted to make magic sword from scratch, you'd need Weaponsmithing, but in the grand scheme of things, you are better off just buying that masterwork sword, then enchanting it. It...

Hardly anything. Anthropomorphic animals from Savage Species and Lesser Aasimar from the Players Guide to Faerun. See this link for a (possibly) complete list of LA +0 races: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=697653

I've been DM'ing for years, and I certainly don't have everything memorized. If you are running a module (which I highly recommend), get a notebook, then read the module thoroughly, taking notes. Focus on rules that might come up during the adventure. For example, the module might say...

An easier variation of the formula you describe would be to just take a particular level's expected gain and add it to the previous level's expected wealth. Figuring out they determined a particular level's expected total wealth is not too hard, but it doesn't really get us any closer to levels...

I'd like to do that for you, but there are a couple of problems. The first one is that the formula would use a "∑" and so you couldn't just plug numbers into it and use a standard calculator to figure it out. There are high-end calculators and computer software out there that could run that...

I agree with shilsen. Generally speaking, if you're running an aquatic creature, the stats, as listed, should not need to be modified further. I've seen some aquatic creature descriptions that included different stats for when the creature might fight outside of water. That leads me to...

I realize I didn't really answer your question. I've played in a 1st level party and the (inexperienced) DM threw an Aboleth at us. We managed to kill it, but the transformation thing was a pain in the butt. Granted, she might have been holding back a bit, but still, I think most 6th level...

They are annoying for their ability to permanently turn a PC into a water-bound creature, but it can be reversed with a Heal scroll. There are some other CR 7 monsters that have more-or-less equally annoying abilities: Black Pudding (might destroy weapons and armor) Medusa (might permanently...

I saw this question a few days ago and it got me thinking. I got my degree in math and I'm a math teacher, so I really enjoy looking for patterns in things. I just spent a few hours looking through the DMG hoping to uncover a hidden pattern that would tie everything together nicely and let me...

I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say here in these four sentences. Detect Magic cannot be made persistent by extension of what? Detect Magic is specifically listed as an example in the SRD. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "all areas described must be true. Could you please...

I'm sure this has been asked here before, but I searched through 12 pages of Feat threads and 8 pages of Spell threads and did not find it. I've found the wording of the feat more than a little ambiguous. I've seen a description on the Wotc website that seems to imply that in addition to...

A couple of questions just occurred to me. For the special case that you are using throwable weapons such as daggers or javelins, does having the Two-weapon Fighting feat essentially equal rapid shot in the sense that you can toss two daggers instead of just one? Also, does this mean that a...

Yep, it does. Thanks for breaking it down.

Thanks for all the advice! I've told my player that if he wants to take "Throw Anything" or get his axes enchanted with "Throwing", he can toss an axe as one of his iterative attacks (once he gets one), and that if he also takes "Rapid Shot" he could even trade out one of his extra Two-weapon...